‘Mandalorian’ Spin-Offs Might Be Coming To Disney+ In The Future During the big, mostly dry Walt Disney Company’s Fiscal First Quarter 2020 Financial Results Conference Call, Disney CEOBob Igerrevealed thatMandalorianspin-offs are a distinct possibility for Disney+. From what Iger said, it seems that the plan is to bring even more new characters into the live-actionStar Warsseries, and then possibly spin them off to their own shows. The future ofStar Warsappears to be more on the small screen rather than the big....

‘Soul Surfer’ Trailer Earlier this month, ain-house promotional teaser trailer leakedforSoul Surfer, a drama about young, teenage surfer girl (played byBridge To Terabithia/Race To Witch Mountain’sAnnaSophia Robb) who “summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack.” When I posted the teaser, I was kind of weirded out that it contained no hint of a shark attack — the teaser made it out like the film is just a happy-go-lucky story about a teenage girl surfer....

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ New Images, IMAX Teaser, And Very Vague Finale Info With apologies to Spider-Man, as Comic Con approaches the film that everyone seems to be talking about isThe Dark Knight Rises.Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman movie has been the subject of years' worth of speculation, and now that the film is two weeks away from release, interest in the picture is higher than ever. And so today we’ve got some great new photos, some of which show Nolan at work on set, as well as a new IMAX teaser....

‘The Last Of Us’ Screenwriter Doesn’t Want His Movie To Be Made If you talk to any screenwriter, they’ll tell you they have tons of scripts sitting in a drawer somewhere gathering dust. Writing a movie can be the easy part – actually getting it made is often far more challenging. So it’s relatively rare to hear of someone writing a screenplay and actively not wanting that script to ever see the light of day, but that’s exactly what’s happening withNeil Druckmannand hisThe Last of Usmovie....

‘Thor’ And ‘The Simpsons’ Screenwriter Don Payne Has Passed Away Don Payne, the screenwriter who worked onThorandThor: The Dark World, passed away yesterday, according to his family. The family has not released any details regarding the cause of death, though a battle with cancer has beenreported. Payne got his start writing for television after graduating from UCLA; after working for a string of sitcoms he and his writing partner John Frink were hired to write forThe Simpsonsin 2000....

‘Uncharted’ Movie Finds New Director In ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Helmer Dan Trachtenberg Just a few weeks after Sony’sUnchartedmovie adaptationlost its fourth director, the studio has followed a treasure map to the front door of10 Cloverfield LanedirectorDan Trachtenbergand hired him to take over the long-brewing adaptation of the hit video game. Varietyreports that Trachtenberg is the latest director to take a crack atUncharted, a popular video game series about a treasure-hunting adventurer Nathan Drake, a descendant of Sir Francis Drake....

‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’ Cut A Reference To Jason Clarke’s Malcolm Over the three newPlanet of the Apesmovies, the apes having continued to work their way to the center stage. WhileRise of the Planet of the Apeshad its humans mostly at the forefront with Caesar,Dawn of the Planet of the Apesmade most of the humans more side characters, andWar for the Planet of the Apesdoes the same. These humans have hardly ever gotten in the way of Caesar’s story, though....

‘Y’ Ordered To Series At FX, Will Premiere In 2020 – See A First Look Image Now [TCA 2019] Before beginning their day of panels for the Television Critics Association, FX sent out a press release confirming that the seriesY, based on the Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra seriesY: The Last Man, has been ordered to series. Diane Lane, Barry Keoghan, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield, Marin Ireland and Amber Tamblyn star....

12 Horror Movies That Should Have Won Best Picture The Oscars don’t like horror. Every once in a while, a horror film peeks its head into the rarefied air of the Academy Awards with a costume or technical nod. One even won Best Picture. But, despiteGet OutandThe Shape of Watergetting their due, it’s a genre largely cast out of the process for seeming too middle- or low-brow. As if fear and its construction aren’t worthwhile artistic pursuits....

20th Century Fox Still Owns Rights To First Six ‘Star Wars’ Films, Making Original Box Set Difficult One of thebiggest fan questionssurroundingDisney’spurchase ofLucasFilmhas been answered. While Disney now owns the rights to theStar Warsuniverse and all future films going forward,20th Century Foxhas retained the rights to the first six movies. The original film,Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, is theirs forever, and they’ll own the final five films,Episodes I-III, VandVI, through May 2020....

ABC’s New ‘Charlie’s Angels’ TV Trailer ABC has announced that a new reboot ofCharlie’s Angelswill begin airing Thursday nights at 8:00pm starting this Fall. The network has released a trailer for the series, which is executive produced by Smallville creatorsMiles MillarandAlfred Gough. Watch the trailer embedded after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. Official Information: CHARLIE’S ANGELS Everyone deserves a second chance. Even a thief, a street racer and a cop who got in a little too deep....

All 368 Songs From Disney Animated Films Ranked [Part Three] (Welcome toThe Disney Discourse, a recurring feature where Josh Spiegel discusses the latest in Disney news. He goes deep on everything from the animated classics to the theme parks to live-action franchises. In this edition: the final part in a series ranking all 368 songs featured in Disney animated films.) Welcome to the third and final part of this series, where I set out to rank every single song to appear in an animated (or animation/live-action hybrid) film released by Disney....

Atlanta Season 3 Gets Ready For ‘The Big Payback’ The latest episode of “Atlanta” is … exhausting in every sense of the word. These 36 minutes felt like a strange eternity. Like the season premiere, “The Big Payback” doesn’t feature any of the main cast, so we aren’t given a follow-up to the events inlast week’s episode. We do, however, get an interesting storyline and the surprising return of a relatively new character, as well as further expansion on the themes prevalent throughout the season so far....